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Embracing Calmness:
The M.L.E. Program through Midline Exercises
Just about anyone can benefit from these easy, quick, simple midline exercises.
I have found once you feel the benefits, you will want to do these simple exercises more often throughout your day.
These exercises were created as a result of my research, which showed the positive results of midline exercises, enabling children to focus.
Since then many educators have used this simple, quick, easy tool within their classroom to experience the impressive benefits.
Whether you are an office worker needing just a little more concentration, or an educator wishing to bring your students back into focus, the benefits to getting both left and right side of the brain working together can happen within minutes.
Autism Project of Dr. Jennifer Dustow:
DO BILATERAL EXERCISES DECREASE OFF TASK BEHAVIOR WITH PRESCHOOLERS WITH A DIAGNOSIS UNDER THE AUTISM SPECTRUM WITHIN A CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT?
A comparison of off-task behaviours was conducted utilising a paired sample t-test in order to ascertain if a statistical significant difference existed when the bilateral exercises were performed by the students in the classrooms against those days when bilateral exercises were not performed.
Bilateral exercises were conducted for 20 classrooms randomly determined by a daily coin toss over a period of six-weeks on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, between March/April of 2007.
A total of 88 students participated in this research study. All participants met the criteria of being diagnosed under the Autism Spectrum in accordance with the Department of Education’s special needs guidelines (Department of Education, 2000).
Off-task behaviours observed include: aggression (verbal and nonverbal); eloping; flopping; inappropriate talking; non-focus; and noncompliance. Statistical significance was found for all six hypotheses.
Vibrational Passage
Winner of the 2012,
Neurobiological Learning Society (NLS)
Choice Award, USA.
Featured in the Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Advertiser newspaper ‘Page Turners’, October 2012.
Co-authored:
Kimberly Miyasaki Lee